CrunchBang Linux Forums - USB Install

Re: USB Install

2010-09-23T18:19:52Z

Try /dev/sdb1 -- that's what I needed on a netbook with no CDROM.

Re: USB Install

2010-09-23T05:53:42Z

I can get to the screen where it says:

Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted. This probably means that the CD-ROM was not in the drive. If so you can insert it and try again.

And I tried going to 'run terminal', wherein I typed:

mount /dev/sdb cdrom
... But it says the device does not exist. When I ls, /dev/sdb exists and /cdrom exists.

Then I tried
mount -t usbfs /dev/sdb cdrom
and the preconf gets borked.

I don't have any CDs around... suggestions? :)

Re: USB Install

2010-09-22T23:13:35Z

Also successfully installed using Unetbootin 471. In both this and SUSE I have to back out of the little startup menu it gives me on boot and manually select 'install' and then 'hard drive' and then 'sdf' though, or something like that...

I realize now that the above information is pretty useless. Sorry. I'll try to find some specifics when I use it on the next machine.

Re: USB Install

2010-09-20T22:13:43Z

Successfully installed using unetbootin 471 (latest from sourceforge) on ubuntu :)

Re: USB Install

2010-09-09T00:29:49Z

I've just spent a day trying figuring out this problem... :/

I tried to install debian and statler 2 on a new pc for a home-server (USB install).
With Unetbootin(on both linux and windows) and Universal USB installer the installion failed to proceed.
The problem was always the same : CD-ROM cannot be mounted. The workaround isn't working for those in my case.
I tried all of the boot-pendrives on two PC(of completly different hardware) and the results were always the same.

The interesting thing is that Debian stable(5.06) gave me the exact same errors(I tried to create the debianboot-usb with UNetBootin and universal USB creator).

Finally the solution was the workaround in this topic but only with the dd-ed version.:rolleyes:
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/statler … stallation
I followed this and succeed. The pendrive didn't need to be mounted to bypass the problem.

I dont know if the dd-ed debian stable can be repaired the same way, it's yet to be tested.

Re: USB Install

2010-07-30T01:43:33Z

I couldn't get my machine to install via usb either. I tried just recently, using two different usb sticks, tried unetbootin (which is supposed to work with alpha 2) the latest version, then i tried to dd it, then i tried symlinking the usb to the cdrom, it just did not work. I had to break down and burn some expensive dvds :(.

Re: USB Install

2010-07-30T01:14:17Z

Unfortunately none of the above usb options worked for me. Tried the dd command on the wiki, got the cdrom error. Then tried several variants on "HDmedia" - again got the same install error. I tried HDMedia "Testing HDMedia_x64, Tried "Stable_HDMedia_x64," and finally "Unstable_HDMedia_x64." The all gave the same error "Install failed."

Incidentally, the USB thumbdrive I used is one I've used many times to successfully install several distro's - including crunchbang 9.04. So it's not the drive.

So finally gave in and burned the damn disk, and installed that way. Seems, at least for my rig, there's no way to install it via usb. Not an issue now that I've burned a CD. But for the final release, it'd be great to get a universal way that is reliable that allows a usb install.

Peace

P.S. Strangely, I went through the install fine. At the end, it saw my crunch 9.04 and windows 7 install and asked to include them in a grub install. I said yes, but when I booted, the only option was Statler. Weird. Not a big problem, but odd.

Re: USB Install

2010-07-27T02:45:20Z

Tried all sorts of things to install from USB (passing cdrom-usb commands from the command line, using the "dd" method, using unetbootin, mounting the /dev/sdb to /cdrom, selecting /dev/sdb as the cdrom) - in short, everything suggested through all these posts and whatever else I could piece together on the 'Net. In the end, due to the LiveCD (which RAN from USB with no problems, BTW) being AWESOME, I just ended up burning the LiveCD to an actual CD-Rom disc and flawlessly installing from there.

SO, SO, SO happy that I somehow heard about #! over the last few days. Back in the late 80's & early 90's, when I was living in the glory days of DOS 5 & 6, I used to use a "shell" called Pathminder (or was it Pathfinder - either way, I think it was developed by Honeywell Bull). Using Openbox (I must admit, the first time I've seen it) reminds me of a glorified/modified/updated version of that sickness and now I'm hooked!

Can't wait to see the finished product!

Re: USB Install

2010-07-11T11:32:16Z

machinebacon wrote:

It should be version 471 already. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net

Aha!

With the most recent version of unetbootin installing statler on my netbook was straightforward.
Thanks guys for your help. It might be worth adding that HDMedia approach to the wiki.

Re: USB Install

2010-07-11T10:41:06Z

It should be version 471 already. http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net

Re: USB Install

2010-07-11T09:14:25Z

hi omns, I asked about the download link because my unetbootin doesn't have an option for HDMedia. I am using version 356-1 on Ubuntu 9.10 - what version are you using?

Re: USB Install

2010-07-11T06:49:57Z

^ There is an option in unetbootin to create a HDmedia boot disk. There is no unstable iso available for though (unless you used something like sidux), so a testing version (i.e. CrunchBang Alpha) would be the only option here. Once made, copy the installation iso of you choice to your newly made usb disk and then reboot from the usb drive.

Re: USB Install

2010-07-11T06:33:41Z

machinebacon wrote:

rbp, what if you make it like post #110?

Do you know where the Debian Unstable HDMedia environment can be downloaded from? Is it one of these?

Re: USB Install

2010-07-11T01:18:19Z

rbp, what if you make it like post #110?

Re: USB Install

2010-07-11T00:18:38Z

I'm having the same kind of problems described by others. I am using an Eee 1000H netbook.

If I use UNetBootin then I get the "Detect and mount CD-ROM" error. If I mount the usb to /cdrom then I get a "Failed to copy file from CD-ROM" error. Live mode works fine.

If I use dd as the wiki suggests then my netbook won't recognize the usb at boot.
Does anything else need to be done to prepare the usb?